Diary (November 7, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Saturday November 7, 2020.

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Diary

How the past must not be altered

Killing Hitler is the classic. There must be countless millions of time travellers who obsess about Killing Hitler — and every one of those obsessive time-travellers *must be stopped*.

Don't get me started on people who try to save JFK's hairdo from getting restyled in Dallas.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles